The Fatal Eggs and Other Soviet Satire Author:Mirra Ginsburg (Editor) This famous collection of Soviet satire from 1918 to 1963 devastatingly lampoons the social, economic, and cultural changes wrought by the Russian Revolution. Among the seventeen bold and inventive comic writers represented here are the brilliant Mikhail Bulgakov, author of The Master and Margarita, Ilf and Petrov, Mikhail Zoshchenko, Yevgeny Za... more »myatin, Valentin Katayev, and Yuri Kazakov.« less